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The start of a new school year is an excellent time for districts to review their school security. It also presents an opportunity to seek out and identify additional upgrades or modifications with the full knowledge of how the facility is being used.

Having all the most sophisticated security technology inside a building is important; but a more ideal situation is controlling who enters, and thereby eliminating threats before they even get on premises.

Camden Door Controls introduced the CM-RQE70 - PIR Request-to-Exit detector.

Paxton Access announced that following market feedback, it has added Genuine HID Technology to the majority of its access control reader range.

ZKAccess introduced the LR-UHF-12, an outdoor IP66-rated long-range125 kHz proximity card reader designed specifically for ZKAccess cards and stickers.

Camden Door Controls announced its new website Order Tracking System.

The ASSA ABLOY Metropolitan Solutions Showroom has hit the road, bringing the latest innovations in doors and hardware directly to customers, architects, interior designers, end users, facility managers and property owners in urban markets.

Three Square Market (32M) is offering implanted chip technology to all of their employees on August 1, 2017. Employees will be implanted with a RFID chip allowing them to make purchases in their break room micro market, open doors, login to computers, use the copy machine, etc. This program, offered by 32M, is optional for all employees. The company is expecting more than 50 staff members to be voluntarily chipped. 32M is partnering with BioHax International and Jowan Osterland, CEO, based out of Sweden.

Police officers in Chicago’s Waukegan Police Department are using Motorola Solutions’ S1500 body cams, which, according to an article in Engadget, may soon be employing artificial intelligence to help officers identify objects and missing people.

HID Global, a global provider of identity solutions, has acquired Arjo Systems SAS, a provider of physical and digital identity solutions for secure government ID applications. Arjo Systems gives HID Global broader capabilities to deploy electronic identification (eID) and ePassport solutions for government programs, the company reported.